[Yum] yum on RH 2.1 AS

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:48 +0000, Sriman Kumaran wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I have installed yum-1.0.3-1_73 from rpm (centos) on a RH2.1 AS. With
> the deafult yum.conf file ( pointing to centos) it works.
> 
> yum info
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: CentOS-2 base
> Getting headers from: CentOS-2 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/textutils-1-2.0.14-3.1.i386.hdr
> getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/imlib-1-1.9.13-4.3.i386.hdr
> getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/lsof-0-4.51-2.1.i386.hdr
> getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/bzip2-libs-0-1.0.1-4.EL2.1.i386.hdr
> getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/logrotate-0-3.5.9-2.i386.hdr
> 
> But when I change it to our yum server (works fine for AS4), it fails
> with:
> 
> yum info
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 2.1AS - i386 base
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> 

> Some thing I am missing for RH 2.1 AS?
> 

nope - it just means one of your repositories has a damaged or malformed
headers.info file in the headers directory.


-sv